January 2015

1 JANUARY1923: Milt Jackson, vibraphonist
1942: Country Joe McDonald
1962: The Beatles perform their first audition for a major record company, Decca. Mike Smith for Decca auditions Brian Poole & The Tremeloes the same day and signs them, not the Beatles.

2 JANUARY
1963: Duke Records of Houston releases Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland’s ‘That’s The Way Love Is.’
1971: George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass – his first solo LP – hits No.1 in the US. A double LP with a bonus ‘jam’ disc, it contains the hit ‘My Sweet Lord,’ the subject of a plagiarism lawsuit years later, filed by the writers of ‘She’s So Fine.’
1979: The trial of ex-Sex Pistol Sid Vicious for the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen opens in N.Y.C.
1980: Larry Williams (‘Dizzy Miss Lizzy,’ ‘Short Fat Fanny’ and ‘Bony Moronie’) is found dead at age 45 in L.A.

3 JANUARY1941: Van Dyke Parks
1945: Stephen Stills
1948: John Paul Jones
1970: The Beatles record what will be their last song performed as a group, a Harrison tune for the Let It Be sessions, ‘I, Me, Mine.’
1980: R&B pianist and singer Amos Milburn, a star of the late ‘40s and early ‘50s, who influenced performers such as Fats Domino, dies in Houston aged 52. His hits included ‘One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer,’ ‘Walking Blues’ and ‘Chicken Shack Boogie.’

4 JANUARY1942: John McLaughlin
1957: Fats Domino records ‘I’m Walkin’’ in New Orleans.
1971: Performance – starring Mick Jagger – opens in New York.
1976: Mal Evans, former roadie and bodyguard to the Beatles, is shot to death, at age 40, by police in LA.
1979: Charles Mingus, dies in Mexico at age 56.
5 JANUARY1923: Sam Phillips
1959: Buddy Holly releases his last record on Carol Records prior to his death, ‘It Doesn’t Matter Anymore.’
1978: The Sex Pistols begin their first and last tour of the U.S. in Atlanta, Georgia.

7 JANUARY
1954: Muddy Waters records ‘I’m Your Hoochie-Coochie Man’ for Chess.
1964: One of the co-founders of British blues-rock band Blues Incorporated, Cyril Davies, succumbs to leukaemia at age 32. The band gave musicians such as Charlie Watts, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and Long John Baldry their first professional jobs.

14 JANUARY1938: Allen Toussaint
1946: Arthur Conley
1973: Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii is telecast from the Honolulu International Centre and a 2-record set of the performances becomes one of the best-selling LPs of the ‘70s.

15 JANUARY1909: Gene Krupa. drummer
1930: Earl Hooker1941: Captain Beefheart
1965: The Who release their first single, ‘I Can’t Explain.’
1977: RCA Records releases David Bowie’s Low.
1967: The Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan Show and perform a lyrically altered version of their current release. Jagger is forced to sing ‘Let’s Spend Some Time Together.’

16 JANUARY
1957: The Cavern Club opens in a former wine cellar on Mathew St in Liverpool, presenting jazz and skiffle bands. The Beatles become house band in1961-62.
1975: Paul McCartney & Wings arrive in New Orleans to begin sessions for the album that becomes Venus and Mars. The band records with Allen Toussaint.
1976: The 2-record live set Frampton Comes Alive! is released.

17 JANUARY1930: Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland
1948: Mick Taylor
1960: Paul Young
1965: The Rolling Stones record their first Jagger/Richards composed A-side ‘The Last Time’ b/w ‘Play With Fire’ in Hollywood.
1970: Chicago R&B singer Billy Stewart and 3 band members are killed in an auto accident in North Carolina.

18 JANUARY1941; David Ruffin
1944: Al Foster, drummer
1956: Little Richard enters the pop chart with ‘Tutti Frutti.’
1964: The Beatles’ ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ enters the US charts at No.45.
1978: Johnny Rotten announces the demise of the Sex Pistols.
1980: Capricorn Records, the Georgia based home of acts such as the Allman Brothers Band, files for bankruptcy.

20 JANUARYMartin Luther King Jr Day1936: Luther Tucker
1945: Eric Stewart
1947: Malcolm McLaren
1968: Bob Dylan makes his first public appearance since his motorcycle accident two years earlier. He and other ‘folkies’ appear at a commemoration concert for Woodie Guthrie.
1973: Jerry Lee Lewis makes his debut at the Grand Ole Opry.

21 JANUARY1889 -1949: Huddie ‘Leadbelly’ Leadbetter
1938: Snooks Eaglin born in New Orleans
1941: Richie Havens
1942: Edwin Starr
1951: Billy Ocean
1965: The Rolling Stones tour Australia for the first time, supporting Roy Orbison.
1966: The Bee Gees announce plans to travel to London to record.
1982: Blues guitar giant, B.B. King, donates his entire 7000-record collection – many rare and critically acclaimed blues records that he had spun on air when a DJ in Mississippi and Tennessee in the ‘40s – to the University of Mississippi’s Centre for the Study of Southern Culture.

23 JANUARY1950: Patrick Simmons (Doobie Brothers).
1978: Terry Kath, guitarist and vocalist with Chicago, plays Russian Roulette with what he thought was an unloaded pistol. He was 32.

24 JANUARY1936: Doug Kershaw born in New Orleans1941: Aaron Neville born in New Orleans
1941: Neil Diamond1947: Warren Zevon
1969: Jethro Tull open for Led Zeppelin in N.Y.
1970: Robert Moog introduces his ‘Mini-Moog’ synthesiser for concert stages. The Musicians’ Union is sweating already.

28 JANUARY1927: Ronnie Scott, tenor sax player, bandleader
1965: The Who make their first appearance on the UK TV show Ready, Steady, Go.
1983: English singer Billy Fury dies of a myocardial infection at age 41. He was born Ronald Wycherley in Liverpool.

Brian Wise was the Editor of Addicted To Noise‘s Australian site from 1997 – 2002. The site won two ONYA Awards as Best Online Music Magazine in 1999 & 2000. He has also been Editor since its reincarnation in 2013. He also presents the weekly music interview program Off The Record on 102.7 Triple R-FM (rrr.org.au) in Melbourne. It is networked to 45+ stations across Australia on the Community Radio Network and is a four-time winner of the Best Music Program Award from the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. In 2012, it was nominated as a finalist in the Excellence in Music Programming category. Brian was also the Founding Editor & Publisher of Rhythms Magazine and is now its Senior Contributing Editor.

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Addicted to Noise was an online music magazine in the early days of the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 by ex-Rolling Stone Associate Editor and Senior Writer Michael Goldberg, he was also the Editor in Chief from October 1994 – June 2000).